I'm not busy or overwhelmed enough yet, so I've taken up something else - I'm teaching myself Spanish, with the help of the Coffee Break Spanish podcast.
I should already speak Spanish; my dad was a native and he tried many times to teach me, but he was too impatient and I rebelled. Then I took a couple of years of it in high school and did fine, but I never used it after that so I forgot it all immediately.
I've been meaning to get back to it for years, and now that I'm thinking of going to live in a place with a huge Hispanic population I thought that maybe now is the time to get serious about it.
The cool thing is that I can do this while I walk the dogs; multi-tasking at its finest! The downside is that since you have to repeat words along with the student in the podcast, I have to find places to walk that are outside of the neighborhood, so I don't scare people by walking down the street talking to myself in a strange sounding language. They'd probably think I was a terrorist, or these days I guess maybe I'd be a witch...
The dogs are strangely uninterested in the whole thing. I guess that just shows now not-focused on me my dogs are, which is something I had, sadly, already noticed. They just let me babble on, with no noticeable concern about not understanding a word I say.
Next I need to figure out how to type Spanish-specific characters on an American keyboard...
Hasta luego, todos! (see you later, all!)
